About

The Book Collector is the leading English-language journal for encouraging, supporting and informing all kinds of book collecting. The bringing together of books, by institutions and individuals, has supported the spread and preservation of ideas for as long as books have existed, and our libraries are bedrocks of civilisation. Book collecting as a private pursuit has flourished for centuries, and today underpins an international commercial network of dealers, auctioneers and buyers worth millions of pounds every year.

It carries articles on many aspects of the publishing and collecting of books alongside news about sales and catalogues, book reviews, obituaries and interviews with collectors or dealers. The News & Comment pages have long been appreciated as a quarry of information on people and events in the book world. It aims to be readable and enjoyable while based on sound scholarship; it values its contributions by well-known experts and encourages up and coming ones.

In print, it maintains standards of design and production which make it fit for collectors’ shelves. It is also available electronically and the digital archive, back to 1952, contains a huge wealth of regularly-cited content. Subscribers, in print or online, have access to this entire backfile.